Re: [docbook-apps] Copyright and dbtimestamp

[davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On 15/06/12 08:01, DeanNelson@aol.com wrote:
> How about
> <copyright start="2005" end="now">  or something like that?

Yes. It's the idea I like.
Sort of keeping docbook up to date without doing anything?

regards



> In a message dated 6/14/2012 10:19:29 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> davep@dpawson.co.uk writes:
>
> On  14/06/12 22:57, DeanNelson@aol.com wrote:
> > Ok, I found the issue inside  my layers.
> >
> > However, this issue should be able to work easier  than shutting off the
> > multi year combination parameters. I assume that  the dbtimestamp is being
> > evaluated after the multi-year-combination  template of the
> copyright/year?
> > Is there a way to get the  dbtimestamp evaluated earlier?
>
>
> Very smart indeed.
>
> Proposal?  that this idea be made available for copyright as part of the
> general  distribution? Surely Dean isn't the only one to realise that
> his copyright  is now n years out of date?
>
>
> <copyright  id="met-copyright">
> <year>2005-&CURRENT_YEAR;</year>
> <holder>My  Company</holder>
> </copyright>
>
> Not sure how syntactically, possibly using the PI  where Dean has the
> entity? but having me specify 2005, and letting the  stylesheets pull in
> the current year seems a good way to address  this?
>
>
> regards DaveP



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